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MRI machines for treating soldiers pulled from war zone
Advanced brain imaging machines sent to Afghanistan in 2011 at the urging of then-admiral Mike Mullen when he was the Pentagon's top military officer have since been quietly closed down and dismantled.
Mullen hoped the three magnetic resonance imaging or MRI machines would help doctors see on scans the mild traumatic brain injuries that have affected thousands of troops exposed to roadside bombs.
But the senior medical officer for the U.S. Central Command, which oversees military operations in Afghanistan, said it remains unclear whether using MRI machines in the war zone truly helps the process of treating these brain injuries.
Use of them ended last February and they were dismantled for spare parts in October, said Air Force Col. Mark Mavity, Central Command surgeon.
"The device itself doesn't necessarily help you treat that patient. It just helps you understand the nature of the injury in a little bit more meaningful way," Mavity said. "(It) was deemed not worth the cost and investment to keep those devices in theater."
Mullen, former chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff who retired in 2011, declined through a spokesperson to comment on the machines being dismantled. But he told USA TODAY in a 2011 interview that getting the machines into Afghanistan was "a very high priority."
Mild TBI from blasts is described as an "invisible" wound, diagnosed only through symptoms such as loss of consciousness, dizziness and confusion.
It has left thousands of troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan with temporary or, in a few cases, permanent problem-solving and concentration problems.
Mullen made a personal goal of improving the treatment of these wounds. He clashed with military medical officials he thought were moving too slowly to install the MRI machines in the war zone in early 2011.
"I've got kids, I've got young ones, getting blown up," Mullen said in an April 2011 interview. "Tomorrow's not soon enough (for MRI's in Afghanistan)."
The machines were finally in operation by November 2011.
In practice, the machines were viewed by military doctors primarily as tools for conducting a scientific study on their usefulness in the war zone, Mavity said. By November 2012, enough data had been collected from scanning the brains of troops with mild TBI to support that study, he said.
So the need for keeping the machines in operation was in question, Mavity said.
Chris Macedonia, a retired Army colonel who advised Mullen on medical issues, said the machines were intended not just for research but also for ongoing treatment.
"We were upping our game ... we were improving our capabilities in theater," said Macedonia, who said he was unhappy the machines were shut down.
Early findings for the study conducted with the MRI machines show that brain damage was found on imaging scans done on troops exposed to blasts in combat.
Dave Hovda, director of the UCLA Brain Injury Research Center, who also advised Mullen on the issue, said published studies already have established that the MRI helps doctors who are diagnosing and treating mild brain injury.
But Mavity said other factors were behind turning the machines off: the war winding down, the annual $3 million operating cost and the dwindling number of U.S. casualties.
A cost-analysis review also supported the idea, he said.
The final decision in February 2012 to shut down the machines was made by Central Command and Air Force Lt. Gen. Douglass Robb, then medical adviser to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Robb is now director of the Defense Health Agency overseeing Pentagon medical programs and policies.
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Batarians are humanoids distinguishable by their four eyes and six nostrils. On average, they are a bit larger and stronger than humans.
Batarian society is organized along class lines, including a slave caste. Batarians typically regard all non-batarians as members of the slave caste, resulting in constant tension due to batarian slave traders raiding isolated settlements of other species.
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The Batarian Hegemony is a significant power in the Mass Effect setting, with military assets capable of threatening the Systems Alliance in a "cold war" over disputed territory. Batarian dreadnoughts are mentioned on several occasions, though no specific number is ever given. The batarians are probably the most powerful of the non-Council races in Mass Effect.
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On the occasion of a seminar at the Rostock Music University, Professor
He puts his technique into practice both on the traditional double bass and
It is occasionally put forward as an argument against this method that the hand is not large enough to play in a chromatic sequence as on the cello. It is certainly true that no hand is large enough to position four chromatic notes in the hand at the same time in their places on the double bass. This is, however, in no imaginable case really necessary. A good cellist also does not position his fingers on the fingerboard in accordance with a rigid orientation, but following the changing circumstances of a constantly changing performance. Hand and arm are always in motion, in the first place for reasons of their sensitisation.
This means that a finger that is not being used is immediately relaxed and either leaves the string or takes a position on the string that suits a relaxed hand, rather than to an imagined "keyboard". The subdivision of the notes (on the double bass and the cello in chromatic sequence, and on the violin in diatonic sequence) takes place in the imagination, not in a strained pre-defined positioning of hand and fingers.
These even applies to violin fingering, where because of the smaller distances it is indeed possible for the fingers to remain in position. Nevertheless, top violinists to a certain extent "play piano", in order to relax the hand again at every moment after the application of force used to position the finger, and also in descending passages to create a similar (percussive) impulse for each finger application. This innervates the playing finger itself, and is thus more efficient and is perceived much more clearly than when the adjacent upper finger is simply raised.
As Professor Dalla Torre assured me, from the historical standpoint it is very likely that all the great double bass players of the Viennese Classical period used this method, which requires much less position shifting than the fingering usual since Simandl near the end of the 19th century. In this style of playing (after Simandl) only two consecutive notes can be played in one position, which obviously requires many more shifts of position which have no musical function.
I would like to give my full support to Professor Dalla Torre´s project. For us musicians, it is always difficult to depart from the beaten track and to venture out on new paths. This also includes experimenting with the different sounds produced using a heavy bow which takes account of the characteristics of weight, length and thickness of the double bass strings.
With the greatly individual differentiation of physical constitutions and learning histories, it is always fascinating to come across alternatives, rather than being faced with a rigid didactic position. For this alone, Professor Dalla Torre deserves our thanks and encouragement.


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If you are one of those who "enjoys" the topsy-turvy nature of the election season, the only real show to watch these past few months has been the Republican Primary. I will say that I have managed only to watch the debates via the filter of my friends on Twitter, but still it has been fascinating. Like every arm-chair political pundit, I too have been wondering who has the best shot at unseating President Obama – for the record, I think John Huntsman was the only legit threat – and now that it's down to the final four, the past few weeks have been pretty wild.
One of the issues that keep arising is the boldness with which Rick Santorum has been speaking the ways his faith influences his politics and should influence the laws of the United States. I am not a fan, but I get why some people might like him. No one is going to fault him for not speaking his mind including saying that 1960's John Kennedy's Speech about the separation of church and state made him want to vomit. His "throw up" comment combined with his comments about the snobbery of a college education and a growing list of other provocative statements may be moving him closer to the Dan Quale and Sarah Palin Quotable Club than the White House. But I guess we'll see . . .
In any case, one of the Santorum posts that has been going around is the Top Ten Catholic Teachings Santorum Rejects while Obsessing about Birth Control post by Juan Cole. His list is as follows:
1. So for instance, Pope John Paul II was against anyone going to war against Iraq I think you'll find that Rick Santorum managed to ignore that Catholic teaching.
2.The Conference of Catholic Bishops requires that health care be provided to all Americans. I.e., Rick Santorum's opposition to universal health care is a betrayal of the Catholic faith he is always trumpeting.
3. The Catholic Church opposes the death penalty for criminals in almost all situations. (Santorum largely supports executions.)
4. The US Conference of Bishops has urged that the federal minimum wage be increased, for the working poor. Santorum in the Senate repeatedly voted against the minimum wage.
5. The bishops want welfare for all needy families, saying "We reiterate our call for a minimum national welfare benefit that will permit children and their parents to live in dignity. A decent society will not balance its budget on the backs of poor children." Santorum is a critic of welfare.
6. The US bishops say that "the basic rights of workers must be respected–the right to productive work, to decent and fair wages, to the organization and joining of unions…". Santorum, who used to be supportive of unions in the 1990s, has now, predictably, turned against them.
7. Catholic bishops demand the withdrawal of Israel from Palestinian territories occupied in 1967. Rick Santorum denies that there are any Palestinians, so I guess he doesn't agree with the bishops on that one.
8. The US Conference of Catholic Bishops ripped into Arizona's law on treatment of immigrants, Cardinal Roger Mahony characterized Arizona's S.B. 1070 as "the country's most retrogressive, mean-spirited, and useless anti-immigrant law," saying it is based on "totally flawed reasoning: that immigrants come to our country to rob, plunder, and consume public resources." He even suggested that the law is a harbinger of an American Nazism! Santorum attacks 'anchor babies' or the provision of any services to children of illegal immigrants born and brought up in the US.
9. The Bishops have urged that illegal immigrants not be treated as criminals and that their contribution to this country be recognized.
10. The US Conference of Bishops has denounced, as has the Pope, the Bush idea of 'preventive war', and has come out against an attack on Iran in the absence of a real and present threat of an Iranian assault on the US. In contrast, Santorum wants to play Slim Pickens in Dr. Strangelove and ride the rocket down on Isfahan himself.
Read full post by Juan Cole here.
Now when I first read this list, my inside snarky junior high school boy voice was like, "Yeah, Santorum take that, you big mean right-wing hypocrite!" Because, let's be honest, it does seems like a serious amount of selective faith positions are being used to support political ones. Now I am not Catholic. I personally differ on some social and theological positions that the Roman Catholic church holds and I also agree with a great deal of what the Catholic Church believes and does, but again, I am not a Catholic, so I do not know what the expectations are of the members of the Roman Catholic Church. Should a member agree with everything that the Catholic Church believes in doctrine and practice? Wow, that's a huge question for Catholics around the world.
I am so very glad that I am a member of the Presbyterian Church (USA) where, in our tradition, every member agrees with every one of the social and theological positions that our denomination has ever taken.
Oh . . . wait a minute.
Dangit, I guess it's hard for me to really get on Santorum too much because really, is any of us pure of heart and action when it comes to our denominational or religious affiliations let alone the entirety of our faith? I think not. So while I would love to bask the condescending glow of his own inconsistencies and hypocrisy, I keep hearing Jesus scream into my ear,
Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. – Matthew 7:1-2
Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her. – John 8:2-11
Please don't get me wrong, I am also not defending him, his positions or the tone of the attacks that are coming from the GOP primary. It is probably safe to say that much would have to happen in order for me not to support a 2nd term of Barack Obama. What I am doing is calling on those of us Christians who vigorously disagree with the folks like Santorum, to do so with a little more care than others might, because, while he is certainly opening himself up to public scrutiny by seeking the highest elected office in the land, I do not think Jesus' would see that as an excuse to unfairly judge or cast any stones his way.
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Preventing Properties from Appearing in the Properties Window
Other properties were removed from the designer either arbitrarily or because they cause design-time errors. For example, no property editor exists for Pen objects as yet (see my book Visual Basic .NET Power Coding [Addison-Wesley, 2003] for more on custom property editors); thus, the designer would not be able to adequately permit modifying a Pen at design time. (You probably could write a custom property editor in terms of a Pen color, but that's another article.)
Public properties are visible in the Properties window by default. As Listing 5 shows, to make a property invisible, you tag the property with the BrowsableAttribute, passing False to the attribute. Remember that the Attribute suffix is dropped from attributes by convention.
Listing 5: Use the BrowsableAttribute initialized with False to remove properties from the design-time environment.
<Browsable(False)> _ Public Property CubeSize() As CubeSize Get Return FCube.Size End Get Set(ByVal Value As CubeSize) FCube.Size = Value Invalidate() End Set End Property <Browsable(False)> _ Public ReadOnly Property CubeX() As Integer Get Return FCube.X End Get End Property <Browsable(False)> _ Public ReadOnly Property CubeY() As Integer Get Return FCube.Y End Get End Property <Browsable(False)> _ Public Property CubePen() As Pen Get Return FPen End Get Set(ByVal Value As Pen) FPen = Value End Set End Property <Browsable(False)> _ Public ReadOnly Property Cube() As Cube Get Return FCube End Get End Property
The non-browsable properties in Listing 5 complete the implementation of the 3D Cube control.
Shaping the Control
.NET supports shaped controls directly. In earlier versions of VB, one had to have a pretty comprehensive understanding of device contexts and the Windows API to create shaped controls. While you'll find some pretty good articles on shaped VB6 Forms with the API, the conspicuous absence of information about non-rectilinear forms suggests that this topic is fairly obscure.
Controls in .NET have a Region property, which is an instance of the Region class. This class supports Transforms, which in turn are an instance of the Matrix class. The Region class permits shaping and the Transform property of the Region class makes it easier to twist, turn, and rotate regions. In this example, all you had to do was get the bounding region of the cube, assign that to the containing control, and violà! You have a shaped control. Because Forms are controls, you can use the same technique to create shaped Windows forms.
Defining a Toolbar Bitmap
VS.NET contains several designers and editors. One such designer is icon and bitmap designer. By adding a bitmap item (select Project|Add New Item|Bitmap File) to your project, you can add a bitmap and draw the bitmap for your control's Toolbar representation or add an existing bitmap to the project.
If you add a new bitmap file to your project, VS.NET opens the designer and makes a new Image menu available. The Image menu contains menu items and links to toolbars that permit drawing a bitmap from scratch. Figure 2 shows a bitmap that represents an approximation of the control's visual representation. The preview window (see Figure 2, middle) shows you how the bitmap will appear with its actual size, and the drawing window (see Figure 2, right) is a zoomed-in view that makes it easier to draw the bitmap.
Click here for a larger image.
Figure 2: Drawing a custom bitmap for your control's Toolbar appearance
To associate this bitmap with your custom control, you need to use the ToolboxBitmapAttribute and the path to the bitmap file or a resource type. (This demonstration uses the latter approach.) The bitmap can be a 16x16- or 32x32-pixel image. Listing 6 shows the ToolboxBitmapAttribute applied to your control class header.Listing 6: Use the ToolboxBitmapAttribute to add a graphic to the toolbox along with your control.
Imports System Imports System.Collections Imports System.ComponentModel Imports System.Drawing Imports System.Drawing.Drawing2D Imports System.Data Imports System.Windows.Forms <ToolboxBitmap(GetType(Cube3d))> _ Public Class Cube3d Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Control
From my previously mentioned book, the following summary of instructions incorporates a toolbox graphic for your control:
- Select the class library from the solution explorer.
- Click File|Add New Item from VS.NET's menu.
- In the Add New Item dialog, pick the Bitmap File template, change the name to Cube3d.bmp, and click Open.
- Open the bitmap item (if it is not already open). In the Properties window, change the Height and Width to 16.
- Draw the bitmap.
- Use bright green for your background color (by selecting the Image|Show Colors Window and picking the neon green color).
- Select the Cube3d.bmp file in the Solution explorer, press F4 to display the Properties window, and change the Build Action to Embedded Resource (see Figure 3).
- Finally, specify the resource type (GetType(Cube3d) in the ToolboxBitmapAttribute for your control class.
Figure 3: Embedding a bitmap is an easy way to drag it along with your application.
(The IDE seems to be a bit particular about the image details, so much so that I did not gratuitously mention my book. Rather, I mentioned the book because I had to go back and check when the image did not show up in the toolbox the first time.)
The final steps include copying the cube3d.bmp to the folder containing the assembly (or including the full path in the ToolboxBitmapAttribute) or embedding the bitmap as a resource, compiling the library containing your custom control, and adding the library to the toolbox.
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Photo: 1998 Diamondback Outlook.
The seatpost rack barely suspends the panniers out of my spokes. It's got awesome street tires, upgraded brakes and a spin-happy mountain bike cassette that's only usable on the hammer ring. It's got SRAM twist-grip shifters, no-name components, it doesn't mind being cross-chained and it's got a ticking bottom bracket, too! Oh my GOSH! Run! Run for your lives! Nothing can prepare you for...
And it got me to work just as fast as my road bike, with a little more effort.
My Banjo Bros. panniers came with these two little hook things that you can put through the braze-on bolts that hold your cargo rack on, in case your rack is mysteriously missing the rounded hook things towards the drop-outs. I had no need for these hooks on my road bike because my rack has the integrated hooks. What did I do with these spare parts? I bolted them to the dropouts on my Outlook! Who needs a real cargo rack with a frame? Well, I probably should ghetto-rig something, because it took a lot to keep my panniers from leaning against the seatstay and into my spokes. Just what I need, more broken spokes, right?
Everything went pretty well. The trip wasn't noticably slower than on my road bike, either. Lorin caught up with me as I came to a stop at the coffee shop again. I got cooled down and made the final approach to work. Hybrid-zilla hasn't seen this parking garage in some months. She's never carried panniers before last night's test run, and combined with all the stuff I had loaded up, it was probably just like old times when I was tipping the scale towards 230 B.N.A.U.
RHR was 51 this morning. That's after letting my heart slow a few minutes after my alarm went off. Sheesh.
Random Tunage:
Reloop - F***ing Society (Chromedioxid II Remix)
Bloc Party - I still remember
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
Well, the Outlook made it!
Photo: 1998 Diamondback Outlook.
3 comments:
go borgcycle! woohoo!
- August 01, 2007 9:27 AM
so how did you attach those panniers? to a seat post rack?
- July 03, 2008 1:21 PM
- Noah said...
Well the saddlebags are joined together, so they drape over the seat-post rack. I bolted some metal hooks up to the braze-ons by the rear axle. To those hooks, I attached the panniers' lower straps. Care was needed while riding to keep the panniers from getting sucked into the rear wheel's spokes.
Basically, this setup is not recommended.
- July 03, 2008 3:37 PM
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Lucy L. Collier to Philip B. D'Oronzio, 902 Blenheim Avenue, $109,000.
Gary M. and Phayvanh K. Nalls to Nathan S. Swami and Margarita M. Figueroa, 1214 Little High Street, $182,000.
Paul R. Shin and Sarah L. Henn to J. Corey and Jennirer B. Feist, 1312 Oxford Place, $383,333.
Margaret Jane Biltonen to Nancy J. Spekman, Trustee, 114 Oakhurst Circle, $480,000.
Peter J. and Sarah M. Sheffield to Andrew K. and Abbe B. Lynch, 109 Shasta Court, $186,000.
Martha A. Ohlinger, Keith Purvis, et al., to Guadalajara Corporation, parcel at East High Street and Free Bridge Road, $110,000.
Word Merchants Ltd. to the Rectors and Visitors of the University of Virginia, 120 11th Street SW, $1,200,000.
Unicorn Holdings Plus LLC to The Lofts at McIntire LLC, parcel on McIntire Road, no price given.
Senad and Melida Cehajic to Shon Dee and Helen Jane Sheerbon, 1223 River Vista Avenue, $150,000.
Jennifer S. Downey and Matthew H. Rohdie to Matthew H. Rohdie, 704 Belmont Avenue, no price given.
Michele P. Gibson, Antonio K. Spicer, et al., to Michele P. Givson, 712 Anderson Street, $55,533.
Sallie T. Bailey to Hans C. Vonbriesen, 704 Druid Avenue, $155,000.
Elaine S. Martin and Barbara M. Thorsen, Trustees, to John G. and Anna M. Palton, 135 Stribling Avenue, $114,200.
Kenneth F. Johnson to Lindsay B. Keyes, et al., condominium unit in 1910 Jefferson Park Avenue, $93,500.
William S. Anderson to Amy and Morry Brown, 100 Westwood Circle, $157,000.
Charles M. and Carla G. Davis to Nettie Ann Woolhandler, 1327 Rugby Road, $817,000.
Theodora H. and Robery W. Carey to Gary Holmes, 403 Paton Street, $97,000.
June K. and Joseph M. Terry Jr., to Robert J. Scavello, 101 Greenbrier Terrace, $172,500.
Gregory Lewis Marrs to Palmer F. Putnam, 720 Franklin Street, $38,500.
G. Frank and Walter D. Sprouse Jr. to Dennis D. and Deborah M. Keener, 306 12th Street NE, $141,000.
Alfred F. Connors Jr. and Mildred Lam to Richard C. Schragger and Risa L. Boluboff, 1889 Westview Road, $480,000.
Charles F. Wood to Christopher M. Burtner, 1607 Mulberry Avenue, $132,500.
Trilateral Corporation to Jay A. Zimmerman, 112 Chisholm Place, $160,000.
Main Street Retail Partners II LLC by Gaylon Beights, Receiver, to Brahm II LLC, parcel at Water and Second Streets SE and Second Street and East Main Street, $3,300,000.
Paul P. and Harriet C. Couture to William Jeffrey Elias, 1955 Thomson Road, $265,000.
Ulysses S. and Jacquelyn W. Billips to Martin C. Yates, unit in the Corner Village Condominiums, $60,000.
Dennis J. Hayton and Teresa L.F. McCalley to Karen Salmonson, 609 Altavista Avenue, $128,000.
Paul P. and Harriet C. Couture to Thomas M. Smith, 1951 Thomson Road, $290,000.
Timothy L. and Kimberly W. Schroer to Rex Stanley and Judy M. Tatum, 1141 Locust Avenue, $168,000.
Lester B. Perry Sr. to Lynwood Dale Wood, 403 10th Street NW, $49,000.
Brian and Dawn Saraney to Elizabeth J. Hollen, 115 Birdwood Court, $132,000.
William M. and bonita I. Templeton to Mourad and Sherrie Z. Fahim, 301 Paton Street, $123,333.
Charles F. Wood to Christopher M. Burtner, 1608 Mulberry Avenue, $132,500.
RSG Associates to K&K Development LLC, two parcels on Monticello Road, $275,000.
Wade Apartments LLC to CCN LLC, Suite 2, Sachem Village, 108 Whitewood Road, $162,000.
Katie Shifflett, Executrix, to Sandra C. Graves, 876 Jenevan Lane, Afton, $85,000.
Grayrock LLC to Craig Enterprises Inc., parcel in Grayrock, $54,000.
James F. and Deborah W. Wells to Elizabeth A. Crooks and David S. Geldmacher, 1444 Piper Way, Keswick, $519,000.
Quibo Lei and Hongge Wang to Nazamid-Din Berjiss, 2328 Finch Court, $127,000.
VanDerLinde Housing Inc. to William L. and Deborah P. Ashby, 1948 River Inn Lane, Still Meadow, $341,000.
William G. Barkley to Marcia S. McGee, 5473 Brownsville Road, $315,000.
William W. and Jane C. Lovelace, Trustees, to Susanna Nicholson, 70 Hickory Lane, Ashcroft, $339,950.
Dwayne A. Douglas to Charles M. Boldt, 3074 Clear Springs Drive, $300,000.
Helen M. Craig and Patricia A. Shifflett to John A. and Linda Hawley, 3.68 acres at 997 Black Cat Road, $27,500.
Pete Wayne and Pearl L. Hawley to John Aubrey and Linda Hawley, 3.68 acres at 997 Black Cat Road, $13,750.
Austin H. and Wendy A. Shaver to Ikjoon Kim, 2629 Commonwealth Avenue, $154,500.
Frances Carter to Peter A. and Connie L. Todd, 16.304 acres at 5465 Markwood Road, $385,000.
John G. Desmond, Trustee, to Robert Hauser Homes Inc., parcel in Dunlora, $76,000.
Robert L. and Judi R. Bowers to Michael B. and Pamela S. Grinder, 3434 Foster's Branch Road, Valmontis Farm Subdivision, $785,000.
Woodbriar Associates Ltd to Tina M. Castillo, 4735 Bluejay Way, Briarwood, $183,640.
RiverRun Investments to Dale W. Mancuso and Tamara Lacy, condominium unit at 1200 Chatham Ridge Road, $124,500.
Dwayne A. and Kimberly S. Wood to Henry and Wendy Shaver, 2909 Proffit Road, $198,000.
Marten and Aleida H. Bultman to Ellis E. and Nina Sherry Good, parcel in Earlysville Forest, $187,000.
Ace Properties LLC to Steven Levine and Shawnna Pledger, 1.1814 acres at 1886 Scottsville Road, $80,000.
Richard L. and Deborah F. Pollock to Gary W. and Sandra H. Kendall, 2195 Homestead Farm Lane, Burruss Branch subdivision, Free Union, $925,000.
Willa P. Koretz to Evening Properties LC, condominium at Turtle Creek, $112,000.
Robert Hauser Homes Inc. to Todd D. and Helen C. Hall, 2211 Ambrose Way, Dunlora, $294,950.
Mike and Nancy Hamdani to Christopher K. and Shelly R. Carlson, 608 Spring Lake Drive, Windriff, $223,000.
Emilie G. Pastorfield to Stefano Grazioli and Alyssa C. Hart, 208 Bennington Road, $259,000.
Jan C. And Diana G. Lesser to William G. Barkley and Rhonda E. Quigliana, 1317 Blackburn Way, Dunlora, $407,000.
Weather Hill Homes Ltd. to Alan and Margaret Scouten, parcel in West Leigh, $79,900.
Howard W. and Carlotta M. Marraro to Charles S. and Emilie G. Pastorfield, 360 Heron Lane, Peacock Hill, $335,000.
James B. Spence, Trustee, to Barry Meade Homes LLC, parcel in Church Hill West, $102,000.
Amy M. Davidson to Pavel M. Dovgalyuk and Jacqueline M. Morneau, 720 Merion Greene, RiverRun, $121,000.
R. W. Jones Jr. to Deneise E. Campbell, 1502 Birnam Drive, Birnam Wood, $145,000.
John G. Desmond, Trustee, to Robert Hauser Homes Inc., parcel in Dunlora, $81,900.
Robert Hauser Homes Inc. to Lee J. and Helena M. Brady, 1165 Rustic Willow Lane, Forest Lakes, $212,000.
Henry Seligson and Seema Landers-Seligson to Harry F. Yoder, 1.987 acres, $41,500.
George R. and Karen M. Gordon to Stacey L. and Clarance E. Booth, .505 acres on State Route 727, gift.
George R. and Karen M. Gordon to Donald K. and Sophie G. Fletcher, 4.043 acres at 3985 Blenheim Road, $135,000.
Benny L. Layne to Anthony Keith and Barbara V. Sandridge, 6516 Hillsboro Lane, Yancey Mills, $65,000.
Carl T. and Karen F. Wise to Karen F. Wise, 1460 Villaverde Lane, Auburn Hills, pursuant to property settlement agreement.
Whitney Mason to Wade A. and Bette J. Davis, 1804 Creekview Lane, Forest Lakes South, $285,000.
Bruce W. and Bonnie M. Kirtley to J. D. Strickler and William R. Herring, 262 Yancey Mills Lane, $230,00
A. M. Nichols, Trustee, to MGR Development Corporation, parcel in Fontana subdivision, $68,750.
Forest Lakes South to Robert Hauser Homes Inc., parcel in Willow Bend subdivision, $81,526.
Michael T. Aron to Larry F. and Dorothy S. Gregory, 3498 Devon Pines Glen, $427,500.
Michael T. Erwin to John A. and Katharine A. Hornung, 125 Tinturn Court, Birnam Wood, $164,000.
Eric Gibson and Theresa Stevens-Gibson to Mark A. and Sallee L. Bowser, 190 Blue Springs Lane, $755,000.
Vivendi Universal Holding Corporation to Ivy Creek Farm LLC, 200.645 acres at 2529 Ivy Creek Farm Road, $8,383,000.
Joseph W. Richmond, Trustee, to Ivy Creek Farm LLC, 2567 Ivy Creek Farm Road, $1,717,000.
Michael S. and Ruby L. Valade to S. R. Evans III and Amy E. Hemstreet, 4741 Amber Ridge Court, $160,500.
Sam Enterprises LLC to James B. Spence III, Trustee, parcel in Cory Farm, $50,000.
Jean J. McGeehan to Thornton Watkins, .95 acres at 2823 Free Union Road, $140,000.
Robert Lee Smith II to Bruce Christian, Susannah C. and Elizabeth T. Carter, parcel in Mill Creek, $176,000.
W. Stephen Scott, Trustee in Bankruptcy, and R. S. Benson to John L. Huffman, 3230 Poplar Ridge Road, $275,000.
Judy K. Davis to Timothy A. and Mukda Clark, 970 Sutton Court, Stonehenge, $118,900.
Jennifer L. Costello to Amy M. Stephenson, 151 Scarborough Place, Sherwood Manor, $112,000.
Lyn Ryan to James A. and Pamela J. Amato, 942 Fairwinds Lane, Western Ridge, $250,000.
Roger L. Baber Jr. to Charles E. and Susie C. Payne, 245 Whitewood Road, $100,000.
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to Ryan L. Bryant, 536 Jester Lane, Camelot, $91,100.
Craig Enterprises Inc. to Barbara J. Warren, 3412 Moubry Lane, Forest Ridge, $178,000.
Laura M. Carr to David J. Hill, 2607 English Oaks Circle, $257,000.
Robert J. and Karen E. Lawson to Robin B. and Cosby M. Davis III, 2456 Pendower Lane, Glenmore, $535,000.
Thomas C. Stegbauer to Kevin and Karen Vetter, 1686 Capri Way, Fontana, $380,000.
Andrew E. and Lisa M. Lazar to Theodore E. and Lynne M. Deucher, 1656 Royal Oak Court, Mill Creek, $141,000.
James B. Spence III, Trustee, to Robert L. Smith II, 1150 Fox Chase Road, $272,900.
Jeffery C. and Ann L. Daniel to Robert E. Radifera and Lauren E. Clarke, 1033 Hayrake Lane, Redfields, $231,500.
Charles W. Hurt and Shirley Fisher, Trustees, to Janet A. and Patrick J. Enright Jr., 24 Tanager Woods subdivision, Earlysville, $115,000.
Robert Hauser Homes Inc. to Judy K. Davis, 30A Bristlecone Lane, Forest Lakes South, $197,500.
Happy Valley LLC to Philip A. and Debra A. Ambrosini, 1.764 acres in Walnut Hills, $105,000.
Margaret E. and Stuart R. Wood Jr. to Karen A. Ayers, 1320 Earlysville Forest Drive, $1,500.
Karen A. Ayers to David M. and Elizabeth H. Erwin, 1320 Earlysville Forest Drive, $282,500.
Herbert W. Perkins to Inglewood Drive LLC, parcel in Oak Terrace Subdivision, no price given.
George H. Gilliam, Trustee, to Domenico and Catherine C. D'Auria, parcel on Woodcreek Drive, $70,000.
Craig Enterprises Ibnc. To James D. Diggs, 1224 Courtyard Drive, Redfields, $231,448.
Suzanne P. Koehler to Karen S. Ayers, 995 Stillwater Lane, Earlysville Forest, $229,000.
VanDerLinde Housing Inc. to Anup and Alpana Agarwal, 2165 Loring Circle, Dunlora, $343,950.
John G. Desmond, Trustee, to VanDerLinde Housing Inc., parcel in Springridge, $73,000.
Kathleen E. Burg to Dorothea L. Matherly and JoLee Tarbell, 1626 Garden Court, $134,000.
Richard H. and M. Strother deButts, et al., to Dale Ludwig, parcel on Old Lynchburg Road, $115,000.
Thomas R. and Laura T. Pietro to David E. and Martha C. Schneider, 2824 Garth Road, $204,900.
David B. and Lori K. Cathcart to George B. Bennett, 2.773 acres on Route 708, Carter's Bridge, $117,500.
Southland Homes Inc. to Floyd E. and Debra G. Pugh, 1058 Somer Chase Court. Hollymead, $150,000.
Deal(s) of the Week
Vivendi Universal Holding Corporation to Ivy Creek Farm LLC, 200.645 acres at 2529 Ivy Creek Farm Road, $8,383,000.
Joseph W. Richmond, Trustee, to Ivy Creek Farm LLC, 2567 Ivy Creek Farm Road, $1,717,000.


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Muni problems? What muni problems?
Their tax-exempt status is threatened, and the situation Detroit isn't helping, but you wouldn't know it from the brisk business at BondDesk.
The retail platform for municipal bond trading reported an all-time record of 11,590 municipal bond trades were done on Monday on the BondDesk ATS.
The record came on the heels of the largest three-day increase in yields since April 1987 and in the wake of last week's Federal Reserve meeting.
John Bagley, president of BondDesk Trading, noted that interest in municipal bonds from retail investors has spiked over the past week along with the increase in yields.
"The municipal bond market has seen exceptionally large selling from institutions since the Fed meeting last Wednesday," Bagley said in a statement. "This week, individual investors provided support for the market and drove yields down across the board by buying bonds at unprecedented levels. This buying was driven by an ability to buy 5.00% coupon bonds at par on a wide variety of quality municipal credits."
The month-to-date fill rate for municipal bond orders placed against firm bids on the BondDesk ATS has been 98.8%, a remarkable fact given the market volatility during June, Bagley noted.
"While Bid Wanteds on our platform are nearing historically high levels above 10,000 per day, a sign of major selling pressure, there were almost five investor buys for every sell this past week, indicating that retail investors are jumping into the market to take advantage of higher rates," he concluded.
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"The Old Mayor's House" 814 E. Abram St., Arlington, TX
(DISCLAIMER: This article is actually a heavily stripped-down, low-res version of a preservation presentation I had to prepare for my architecture class. These images are welcome for non-commercial use, especially students and historic preservation sites. If you want the high-resolution photos or the 4-meg Power Point presentation, contact me for details. ) The Powerpoint presentation is chronologically organized and includes the context. This blog entry article is more about the difficult journey of trying to get the information before the PPT was ever put together.)
Our professor wanted to expose us to the Preservation side of architecture. Arlington, Texas has a number of historical sites scattered about. Of course, one must keep in mind that "historic" in the DFW Metroplex means it's older than about 50 years old, once again proving Eddie Izzard correct when he makes fun of us.
"We've restored this building to the way it looked over FIFTY YEARS AGO!!!"
"Surely not! No one was alive back then!"
Our professor wanted to expose us to the Preservation side of architecture. Arlington, Texas has a number of historical sites scattered about. Of course, one must keep in mind that "historic" in the DFW Metroplex means it's older than about 50 years old, once again proving Eddie Izzard correct when he makes fun of us.
"We've restored this building to the way it looked over FIFTY YEARS AGO!!!"
"Surely not! No one was alive back then!"
Now, granted, we don't have any buildings that one can literally rent or buy that someone built before the advent of Monotheism. And one would be hard pressed to even find a building constructed before the 1900's over here. Be that as it may, we are slowly gaining an appreciation for our own history, so long as it doesn't get in the way of gigantic sports stadiums, theme parks, car dealerships, parking lots, or anyone with a large enough wad of cash to make us forget that maybe there was a reason for that quaint old place to stay there.
The Arlignton Historical Society seeks to preserve what few historic landmarks remain in "The Heart of Arlington," and our duty for this assignment was to help them present a case for preserving certain structures. I chose "The Old Mayor's House" on 814 E. Abram Street. I also had no idea what I was in for. For one thing, aside from this article that you are reading right now, you won't find a single reference to it on the web except for a tiny blurb on a scanned in 1-liner next to a single current-day photo, from a pamplet advertising to tour historic Arlington. Go ahead and look, this article will be here when you come back...
...Done looking? I couldn't even find a reference to the current owner. I tried contacting the Historical Society and received no answer. So far the only information I had been able to find out was from that one liner blurb on the pamplet.
University of Texas at Arlington Special Collections archives to see if I could find anything at all about the building. My search turned up absolutely nothing. I found one photo of the 800 block of East Abrams, but it was taken between 1910-1915, and according to the pamplet, the house was built in 1928, and the archives were closing for the evening.
The next morning, I visited the site to find it was currently a Tax Specialist office.
So, I headed along to the side of the office to get a better look.
It is a beautiful house, well restored Tudor-Revival House with what appears to be Mid-Atlantic Tan brickwork and stained-glass windows. The place has a very loved, well-manicured look about it. I head to the front and find it closed. Then I realize the driveway actually leads to a parking lot in back. Perhaps that would be where I need to park and enter through the back. No such luck, it's closed and locked too.
Geraldine had greenlit my taking photos of the house, but I wanted to be extra careful not to offend anyone, so I called the non-emergency line for the Arlington Police Department, and informed them of what I was doing. For any students of architecture, history, photography, etc. Whenever you have to study a site, it's always a very good idea to let the police know exactly what you are doing, why, for how long, what you are wearing, and so forth. Otherwise, at best you might merely be stopped by the police and inconvenienced for half an hour while they figure out if your story is legit. At worst, you might get shot for trespassing by a panicked owner. My conscience clear, I stepped out of the car and got as many exterior photos as I could.
The front photos aside, one thing I noticed is the house is now ADA Compliant. Complete with a handicapped parking spot, a ramp. The house also now has a fire escape as a method of egress. Both would be required for a business, technically, but doing so is always difficult because one ultimately risks damage to the historic nature of the house, the look and spirit of the place can become ruined. I think in this case, they did quite a good job. The ramp access is in back, so that the front of the house is preserved, and yet it gives easy access and parking. I noticed on the side opposite the driveway was a very picturesque garden, and had to take a closer look.
Wow. Makes me wish I had one of these. What looks like a roof is actually a portico with a trellis, and a thick layer of foliage along the top. The flagstone, arches, greenery, and shade makes a great refuge from the heat and noise of the house's unfortunate surrounding context of auto shops, convenience stores, and fast food chains.
I took another couple of pictures when sure enough, someone approached me to see what I was about. I explained my situation as honestly as possible and it turned out she was the property manager, had access to the interior, and would be happy to show me around the place. She even knew of a few old photos of the place and a few articles. I had struck archival gold!
The first thing she showed me was a couple of photos of the place before it had been bought and restored by Mr. Carrillo.
As you might be able to tell, the two front corners of the house had been cut out and replaced with large plate glass display windows. That's because it had been a dress shop before it had been purchased by Mr. Carrillo. It also had no central heating and air conditioning. It had no driveway, no parking lot in back, and the whole house itself, though handsome, was in a considerable state of disrepair. But Xavier Carrillo had seen promise in the place, and sought to restore its original beauty. He did a great job. In fact, he did so well, they gave him an award.
The property was acquired by Xavier Carrillo in 1993, who renovated it over 9 months, and won the top honor "Excellence Award" in urban design in 1994 for revitalization of a city landmark. Here's a partial list of what he did:
- Original slate roof was restored, though in 2006 had to be replaced with a standard composite roof due to prohibitive cost.
- Plate glass window on northwest corner was replaced with brick.
- Plate glass window on southwest corner replaced by arched window to match the rest of the house's theme.
- Back porch portico converted into interior space with large arched windows.
- House completely rewired.
- Brick was cleaned.
- Central A/C and Heating installed.
- ADA ramp installed.
- Arbor, curbs, sidewalks, and a drive for rear parking were all installed.
What you are looking at now is a painting of the house as it would have looked prior to the crude re-purposing the dress shop had inflicted on the property (~1950's). As you can see, there is a significant difference in the look of the place. The artist is a miss Gretchen Schwab, who painted this in 1996 as a gift for Mr. Carrillo. The east (left) part of the house is shown as an open porch with an arched portico which has since been converted into internal space with arched windows and an external portico added. And, of course, no tacky plate glass display windows.
As previously mentioned, Carrillo internalized the arched portico space, converting it into a great connecting rear foyer. The room is beautifully decorated and the brickwork matches the rest of the house perfectly. The third photo you see used to be the back door leading to the portico.
This is the other side of that door. We are now in the signing room, what would at one time have been the formal dining room. It is, likewise, beautifully done.
The fireplace is gas. I never did get a final answer on whether or not the actual framework of it is original or not.
The dining room sports a simple, but elegantly vaulted ceiling...
...with the original chandelier, which I later found out was designed by the home's architect.
The stained glass windows are all original, as are the arched doorways. I'm not certain whether or not the doors themselves are, however. When I was attempting to get a better shot of the front door, I saw this:
When I asked about it, the PM told me it used to be a phone booth, and that Mr. Carrillo had decided to leave it like it was. As it turns out, this was an incredibly wise decision. When I returned to the UTA Special Collections Archives later that day, I decided to change my tactic, and search for things relating to "The Old Mayor" rather than the house. Barney C. Barnes was mayor from 1947 to 1951, and is the person the house got it's nickname from. By odd coincidence, he was also instrumental in getting UTA up and running, though it wasn't called UTA at the time. Perhaps one of those photos, articles, or books somewhere would have something about the house.
I should take a moment to mention that searching through Special Collections archives is a painfully slow task. In an age where high-speed wireless internet access and streaming video of nearly everything in the world is available on most modern cell phones, the archives are like a black hole of knowledge which never escapes to the digital world. Hardcopies are actually stored according to how many linear feet they take up. Checking out even one single item requires first thumbing through literal pages upon pages of finding-aids, guessing at what box might have something about what you're looking for, filling out a form, waiting for it to be processed, the box to be looked up, carted out, gloves worn to manually examine the contents one at a time. The vast, vast majority of the time you will not find what you are looking for, and will have to start the process all over again.
Assuming you do find a photo, article, or anything else that you would like, you will need to fill out two additional forms, wait for them to be processed. The item you wish to have copied will need to be returned internally to a special lab where you might see your copy in about half an hour if you are lucky enough to only need a xerox of an article or post card. If you actually need a scan of a photo, it will cost you six dollars per copy and a few days wait. These areas are also typically only open during normal business hours.
I don't say this to denigrate the UTA Special Collections by any means. They have their processes in place for very good reasons, and serve a vital purpose to researchers. What I wish to convey to the reader is that this type of research will not only seem alien to you if you've never done it before, but it is also not a quick process. Should you ever have a project that requires access to a Special Collections archive, expect it to take days to find even one relevent item.
Well, as it turns out, after three visits, there just happened to be a book (thus only a 30 minute wait for the reproduction) on historic politics in Arlington that had a photo of Mayor Barnes...
Recognize that phone booth? Now look closely at the phone. It's a rotary-dial phone, as opposed to a crank-switch. And why on Earth would someone have taken a photo of the mayor on the phone, at his house, while he obviously poses for the shot?
I found the answer about two hours later, thumbing through the Special Collections' randomly clipped and saved articles from the Fort Worth Star Telegram.
There's more to the article, but there's the important part. Or most of the important part. It turns out that, for at least a brief time, thanks to a deal brokered by B. C. Barnes, Arlington had the most advanced phone system on Earth, and that the very first use of that new phone system was at none other than the Mayor's house, at 814 E. Abram St. So, the age of the building aside (over 80 years old), there is reason number two for its preservation: an historically significant event, and photo documentation to prove it. Reason number three came after I'd finally gotten in contact with Mr. Carrillo, who, in addition to answering some questions about the house, had remembered that it had been built by a Mr. Hutsell. A bit more investigation finally gave me the name of the architect, Clifford D. Hutsell.
Clifford D. Hutsell was a rather prolific architect in the Dallas area. After a trip to California in 1929, he was an architect specializing in Spanish Colonial revival style. His flamboyant style typically incorporated multi-colored ceramic tile, wide-arched stained glass windows, balcony porches, exterior stairs, and several houses of his together in a row would seem to fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. He is credited as the primary architectural influence in the Lakewood County Club District as well as Highland Park--two of the most exclusive neighborhoods in Dallas. However, before he left for California, he was not an architect, but merely a Grapevine-born city planner who had tried his hand at designing two houses. One was at 1306 W. Abram St. The other was at 814 E. Abram St., designed for a certain cattle baron (Dave Martin) who had inherited a patch of land. The house was later sold to W. T. Waggoner (the richest man West of the Mississippi) who built Arlington's 1st and only Horse Racing Track.
So, there are two more previously unknown reasons for its preservation. The architect was a native-born Texan (an extreme rarity for the time, as most of our architects came from "Damned Yankee States"), and was a major architectural influence on the area. The last reason is because of the figures of note who lived there, (Waggoner and Barnes). Thus, the case for preservation is made. I will be producing a CD with my powerpoint, findings, and original photos for myself, the UTA Special Collections, and Mr. Carrillo, should anyone need more information. This article was primarily about the journey. The powerpoint is far more succinct and chronological.


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Review: "Rosenkrantz & Gildenstern" one of APT's funniest
The play is "Rosenkrantz and Gildenstern are Dead" and to understand what it's all about, you have to be familiar with Shakespeare's "Hamlet."
If, however, you don't really care what it's all about, you will find the American Players Theatre production one of the funniest in years.
Rosenkrantz and Gildenstern are friends of a young Norwegian prince, Hamlet, played by Matt Schwader. Hamlet is, of course, the star of his own play, one that is not in the least bit funny in that almost everyone of any importance ends up dead, including Hamlet's parents, Hamlet and, for good measure, Rosenkrantz and Gildenstern.
In this play, written by Thomas Stoppard and first performed in 1967, Rosenkrantz, played by Ryan Imhoff, and Gildenstern, played by Steve Haggard, start off on a confusing journey to England to carry a message from King Claudius (Jim DeVito). Claudius is, of course, the guy who murdered Hamlet's father and married Hamlet's mother, Deborah Staples.
Got that?
Except, Rosenkrantz and Gildenstern don't know quite where they are or what they're doing. In fact, the whole operation is reminiscent of APT's recent production of "Waiting for Godot," just to put another obscure reference into the pot.
Oh, yeah. . .APT is also staging "Hamlet" this summer and Imhoff, Haggard, DeVito, Staples and Schwader all play the same roles in "Hamlet" that they do in "Rosenkrantz."
Which, I admit, makes it all seem very in-group, but, in reality, the play stands on its own and is, as I said, very, very funny.
One special commendation, Jack Dwyer plays a small role, that of Alfred, a member of a comic acting troupe whose job it is to put on a skirt and be raped repeatedly – something that never really happens on screen but is referred to repeatedly. He does a great job of appearing absolutely miserable.


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Can You Guess Whose Tattoo This Is?
This U.K. singer has an inked portrait of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo on her right forearm. Can you figure out who owns this tattoo? We give you some clues below.
At 26, she's made her way from her native Scotland to the charts of the U.S., where her debut album was a top ten Billboard Hip-Hop/R&B album. She has also become musical friends with Grammy Award winner Alicia Keys, whom she co-wrote songs with for her latest album, 'Girl on Fire.' Keys also lent some lyrics and melodies to this songbird's debut as well.
Have you guessed the owner of this tattoo? Click below to find out.


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Hello Everyone, been busy with stuff but I have some pictures of Sebastyan.
Which I found out recently he seriously doesn't know his name, maybe his nick name but I'm not sticking to calling him "Bitters" or "Bits". I gave it a thought of maybe calling him something else... I though about calling him Milk since he has a milk-stache. Though...I had already sorta use to Sebastyan and I like the way it sounds and it seems to fit him. Calling him Milk-chan be cute though.
He just has to learn his name, I got treats and he is getting it a little but sometimes he isn't interested in listening.
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I've been reading a bit about Joe Renzulli and I like his Three Ring concept of Giftedness. According to Renzulli, there are three important factors for the development of gifted behaviour: Above average ability, creativity, and task commitment.
Renzulli defines Creativity as the fluency, flexibility, and originality of thought, an openness to experience, sensitivity to stimulations, and a willingness to take risks. Task Committment is motivation turned into action (like perseverance, endurance, hard work, but also self-confidence, perceptiveness and a special fascination with a special subject). Renzulli argues that without task commitment high achievement is simply not possible.
I like how he has identified these three aspects. One thing I wonder about though, is ability innate or is it learned? I like to think that almost anybody can learn to do almost anything, if they have the perseverance.


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Source: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/educational/hearttruth/downloads/pdf/factsheet-recipes.pdf
Broiled beef and chicken cubes flavored with lemon and parsley.
For marinade:
2 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp garlic, minced (about 2–3 cloves)
2 tbsp lemon juice
1 tbsp fresh parsley, rinsed, dried, and chopped (or 1 tsp dried)
½ tsp salt
For kabobs:
6 oz top sirloin or other beef steak cubes (12 cubes)
6 oz boneless, skinless chicken breast, cut into ¾-inch cubes (12 cubes)
1 large white onion, cut into ¾-inch squares (12 pieces)
12 cherry tomatoes, rinsed
1 (4 oz) red bell pepper, rinsed and cut into ¾-inch squares (12 squares)
12 wooden or metal skewers, each 6 inches long (if wood, soak them in warm water for 5–10 minutes to prevent burning)
Preheat grill pan or oven broiler (with the rack 3 inches from heat source) on high temperature.
Combine ingredients for marinade, and divide between two bowls (one bowl to marinate the raw meat and one bowl for cooking and serving).
Mix the beef, chicken, onion, tomatoes, and red pepper cubes in one bowl of the marinade and let sit. After 5 minutes, discard remaining marinade.
Place one piece of beef, chicken, tomato, onion, and red pepper on each of the 12 skewers.
Grill or broil on each of the four sides for 2–3 minutes or until completely cooked (to a minimum internal temperature of 145 °F for beef and 165 °F for chicken). Spoon most of the second half of the marinade over the kebabs while cooking.
Serve three skewers per serving. Drizzle the remaining marinade on top of each kebab before serving (use only the marinade that did not touch the raw meat or chicken).
Tip: Delicious served over orzo pasta or rice.
Yield: 4 servings
Serving size: 3 skewers
Calories: 202
Total fat: 11 g
Saturated fat: 2 g
Cholesterol: 40 mg
Sodium: 333 mg
Total fiber: 2 g
Protein: 18 g
Carbohydrates: 9 g
Potassium: 431 mg
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Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky: 3/12/09
|Suite Francaise
by Irene Nemirovsky
Nemirovsky's story of war and occupation impressed our group. Her writing skill was formidable, especially when considering the fact that the work is incomplete, interrupted by her arrest and eventual murder in a Nazi camp. Several were struck by the author's vivid descriptions of nature – life going on about its business on breathtakingly beautiful days at the same time that the war and its horrors took over the lives of the people of France. DS was reminded of another image of terror with a beautiful backdrop closer to all of us – planes flying into towers on a crisp fall day.
We were charmed by Nemirovsky's humorous view of her characters, most of whom were shown in quite a critical light. We wondered that this book about the German occupation of France – written by a woman with Jewish heritage – has no Jewish characters or even a reference to the Jews.
There is quite a contrast between the two parts of the novel; the first full of the frenzy and chaos of displacement, the second slowing to the languid tension of occupation in the countryside. Nemirovsky has given us a stunning exploration of the intimate, complex relations between occupied and occupier.
The appendices are almost as interesting as the rest of the book, giving us insight into the author's process and plans for her characters, and providing a heartbreaking record of her husband's efforts to find her and free her after her arrest.
I highly recommend CD's comment below, written in response to several members' request for his reaction to this book. He brings a writer's perspective to our discussions, and people were curious to hear his thoughts about this book in particular, which is unfinished and accompanied by the author's notes. He hadn't finished the book before our meeting, so he wrote on the blog.
Book club members also recommend Nemirovsky's other novel, Fire in the Blood, and the nonfiction Is Paris Burning? by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre.
|Irene Nemirovsky
| New York Times Book Review
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It started when I was about 10 years old. I'd come home from school, grab a snack, and then open the door to the basement. I'd stand at the top of the stairs, nimbling on a Dad's oatmeal cookie, and listen. Was she down there?
Yes. And if just starting, I'd hear first a sound like a hand clap, and then a whirling, like a spinning ceiling fan.
Sometimes I would take the 12 steps down, deep into the basement, red shag carpet soft on my bare feet. I'd see her, in the room off to the left, wearing hush puppy slippers to protect her feet from a cold concrete floor and the clay that splattered. A scarf held her sand curls away as she leaned over the wheel, her hands moving up and down the spinning, wet clay. The clay would rise with her gentle hands. Sometimes, after dipping a hand into a water pail beside the wheel, she'd press on top of the tower of clay, to decrease it, bring it down. And then, her encircled hands applying perfect pressure, she'd restore the clay into recognizable forms of mugs, bowls and vases.
She'd spin up the clay, my mother, and then flatten it down on the potter's wheel, spin and press down, until the clay mixture was the perfect consistency to hold the mold she knew it could.
I didn't see it then, this parallel, when watching my mother's skilled hands, yet isn't that what God is doing with us too? Even in our battles, our trials, our hurts and betrayals, when we are in the depths of the valley, God is molding us and restoring us. His hands hold us, and His words are living water, replenishing and nurturing. His grace spins us from destructive habits, from shame and condemnation toward strength and redemption.
Turn to God! Give up your sins, and you will be forgiven. Then that time will come when the Lord will give you fresh strength. Acts 3:19-20
You were taught with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds, and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. Ephesians 4:22-24
And He rights our path and restores our soul.
He refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right paths for his name sake. Psalm 23:3
My prayer for you today, my friend, is that you know He will lift you up from any depth, restore you, and satisfy you with His presence.
Can you feel Him today, encircling you with His grace and love?


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BOSTON (AP) — A powerful storm stunned New England and northern New York with a late-winter wallop, burying parts of the region in more than 2 feet of snow, hampering efforts to reach a small plane that crashed after the pilot reported icing problems and dropping rain that swelled rivers and swept away houses.
BOSTON (AP) — A powerful storm stunned New England and northern New York with a late-winter wallop, burying parts of the region in more than 2 feet of snow, hampering efforts to reach a small plane that crashed after the pilot reported icing problems and dropping rain that swelled rivers and swept away houses.
The winter blast also stopped commuters in their tracks on ice-covered highways and contributed to the death of a 2-year-old Danville, Vt., boy who died Monday night after being struck in his driveway by a snowplow driven by a relative.
Maine officials said the plane, a four-seat Diamond DA-40, went down near the Canadian border Monday afternoon, killing one person and injuring another. State wardens had to use snowmobiles to respond to the area, where most of the logging roads hadn't been plowed, said Steve McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Public Safety Department. A Canadian search and rescue helicopter reached the site Monday night and airlifted the injured person to a hospital in Canada.
The storm pushed the seasonal snow total in notoriously wintry Buffalo, N.Y., an inch past 100. Burlington, Vt., registered its biggest March snowfall on record, at 25.8 inches as of Monday night. In southern New England, flooding closed roads and cut off neighborhoods as rain melted snow or fell on frozen ground with no place to drain but overtaxed rivers.
A mudslide in Greenfield, Mass., forced at least two families from their homes and buried cars, the Republican newspaper reported. In Newport, N.H., an adult and three children had to be rescued by boat when the Sugar River surrounded their home. The Housatonic River near Oxford, Conn., swept parts of two homes and two cars away, authorities said.
The storm's severity shocked even the hardiest stock in New England, where in a nod to the inevitable coming of spring after one of the harshest winters in recent memory, stores had put grass seed on display. Instead, as the second week of March began, businesses closed and residents hunkered down yet again.
Amy Newman laughed about her disrupted routine as she struggled down Main Street in Montpelier, Vt., pushing a three-wheeled stroller and carrying her 3-year-old son, Wakeland.
"We tried going to the library, but it was closed," she said. "Then we tried (popular local bakery) La Brioche, but it was closed, too."
To the south, the weather was no laughing matter.
In Connecticut, flood warnings were issued for the Housatonic, Farmington, Still and Naugatuck rivers. About a dozen homes were evacuated in Danbury, and water was reported up to the first floors of homes in one neighborhood. Authorities considered evacuating an apartment complex for the elderly as water encroached.
Kent authorities reported that about 40 families in one area were cut off from main roads and their homes were being evacuated. In Southbury, officials reported more than two dozen evacuations, several homes underwater and a few mudslides. A mobile home reportedly was washed away after it was evacuated.
Officials in Plainville, Canton and Watertown asked state officials for hundreds of sandbags.
Parts of upstate New York were buried under more than 2 feet of heavy snow, combined with freezing rain, sleet and 30 mph winds. Schools closed and thousands of customers lost power. Part of Interstate 81 near Syracuse, N.Y., closed when tractor-trailers jackknifed on an icy uphill stretch.
The storm dropped 27 inches of snow on Westport, across Lake Champlain from Vermont, and Saranac Lake topped out at 29 inches, the National Weather Service said. More than 50,000 power outages were reported at the storm's peak, most of them around Albany, N.Y.
A utility crew repairing downed power lines in the southern Vermont town of Baltimore was forced to leave because more ice-laden trees were coming down around them.
Even forecasters were caught off guard after most had called for about a foot of snow.
"We had almost a tropical air mass across southern New England that was trying to push north at the same time a polar air mass was trying to push south," National Weather Service meteorologist Brooke Taber said. "It was that battleground that created this intense snowfall."
The storm helped push the winter of 2010-11 up the record list. The 13 inches that fell in Syracuse, N.Y., made it the fourth-snowiest winter on record there, with a seasonal total of 173.5 inches compared with the record of 192.1, set in 1992-93. Rochester, N.Y., surpassed 112 inches of snow by Sunday, more than 30 inches above normal.
It's the third-snowiest winter on record in Burlington, at 121.4 inches, and the latest storm dropped enough snow to top the Valentine's Day blitz in 2007, when 25.7 inches fell, meteorologist Andrew Loconto said Monday night.
"It was also the snowiest snowstorm ever to occur in Burlington in the month of March," topping a record notched March 5-6, 2001, when 22.9 inches of snow blanketed the city, he said.
Mark Wysocki, a meteorologist at the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University, said the storm was just the latest in a string of storms spawned by a weather pattern that set up in November and is likely to remain in place for a while.
"We're in a very active weather pattern where we have very cold air sitting over the Midwest and Plains," Wysocki said. "It's changed the storm track so storms are coming up the coast and tapping into a lot of moisture off the Atlantic."
And as residents clean up yet again, forecasters warned that they shouldn't get too comfortable.
"The next storm is already shaping up over the Rockies and will be here by midweek with rain along the Hudson River Valley and snow through western New York, Ontario and Michigan," Wysocki said.
Some New Englanders couldn't be kept down.
Near the grass seed display at Aubuchon Hardware in downtown Montpelier, Tom Walbridge insisted: "Smile, folks — it's coming."
Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Dave Gram and Wilson Ring in Montpelier, Vt.; Norma Love and Holly Ramer in Concord, N.H.; David Sharp in Portland, Maine; Carolyn Thompson in Buffalo, N.Y.; Chris Carola in Albany, N.Y.; and John Kekis in Syracuse, N.Y.


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The mid-1970's can be considered the golden era of the Lowrider scene. It was a glorious time in which parks throughout California would be brimming with Lowrider activity, and picnics would be filled with the sights of chrome and custom paint. As the sun set, these park attendees would trade the green lawns and picnic parking lots for the backdrop of the Boulevard, scraping pavement until the wee hours of the morning. This booming time period also saw the formation of many Lowrider car clubs, some of whom are still around to this very day. One of those few surviving clubs is Oldies Car Club, a club that has endured for nearly four decades!
The idea of forming this unique car club took shape in the summer of 1975, in a shipping yard in San Diego, CA. While on their lunch break at the shipping yard, three friends came up with an idea to start up a car club that only consisted of older makes. The first step they took in forming the club was to design a flyer that read, "If you like and have an old car and want to start a club, please attend the meeting which will be held in the evening on July 10th at Chicano Park." The flyer was passed around to friends, family members, and anyone the three men came across, making its rounds all over the city of San Diego and its surrounding areas. When the date arrived, a total of eighteen beautifully maintained classic cars showed up to Chicano Park, eager to see what was behind the flyer. Of those eighteen cars that showed up, only ten of them decided to stay and help start the car club.
The club needed direction, and those on hand began the intimidating task of coming up with a name for the club that defined the shared enthusiasm they all felt for classic cars. There were three or four names being kicked around by everyone there, yet no one could agree on any of them. While discussing the name, the group was listening to oldie tracks and one of them said "Hey! we like to listen to oldies and we have oldies cars, why don't we call ourselves "Oldies?" Everyone liked the sound of it and they all agreed on naming the club Oldies, a name that still defines the club to this day.
Excited, the club members began searching for plaque ideas immediately, and they also worked to choose the club colors that would define their dress code. The members decided to have Oldies written in Old English lettering for their design and had the plaque made out of brass. The club colors consisted of black shirts with white letters. Finally, the united front of Oldies Car Club was born, and as time went on, the club's membership began to increase. As fate would have it, the club was about to get even bigger.
In 1981, an Oldies club member from San Diego drove up to Los Angeles and saw a young man wearing a hat that read "Oldies." Not wanting to leave himself with any doubt of what his hat meant, the San Diego member approached him and asked what it stood for. The man told him that it stood for a car club named Oldies out of the San Fernando Valley. With no animosity, the San Diego member explained that he was also in a club called Oldies in San Diego. On June 28, 1981, the Oldies of San Diego invited the members of the San Fernando Valley Oldies and their families to come down to Chicano Park to have a good time with them. It was there that both clubs realized that they shared a common interest in older cars and the idea to come together and form one club was agreed upon.
Now that the club had officially merged the two groups together, the only difficulty came in trying to combine the pre-existing styles of both clubs. At the time, the SFV members sported brown shirts with block letters that had a wave-like manner to them, while the San Diego members had black shirts with white letters in Old English. Instead of embracing one or the other, both groups decided to form a new look, settling on black shirts with yellow letters and an Old English letter font arranged in a wave-like manner to represent the newfound unity between both clubs. The new plaques read "Oldies Car Club" and had no mention of the area that they were from, in order to show unity amongst themselves and solidarity. Currently, the club has both types of plaques; laser cut and brass. "We leave it up to the member on what kind of plaque they want to fly, we have no regulations on that," explains George Mirzoian, the Vice President of the San Fernando Valley chapter.
Within time, the Oldies car club started growing and opening up different chapters throughout the states. "I think that if it wasn't for Ricardo, the club wouldn't be as big as it is," says George. Oldies car club was crowned Lowrider Car Club of the Year in 1997 and again in 2005. "It's hard for a club like us to be strong at the shows with numbers since we are a '60 and under club," George says. This is one rule that the club sticks to, and when they say '60s and under, they mean it; you will never see a '61 or newer car flying the Oldies plaque. "We have two Club of the Year titles, and we would like another if they ever have the category again," says George. "We may not have that many cars, but we have a lot of quality cars in the club," he says proudly.
Oldies have always been a very active car club and still is today. The club does their part to help out the community and they host plenty of charity events, including toy drives and fundraisers. The club also throws their annual car show every year at one of Los Angeles' high schools, San Fernando High School. "We had over 500 car entrees at our 2011 car show, which is big for the San Fernando Valley," smiles George.
After almost forty years, the Oldies car club is still going strong and they remain positively involved in their communities while upholding the Lowriding way of life.


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How Can I Get My Grandparents to Trust Me?
I live with my grandparents since my mom went to prison. Sometimes they act
like I'm going to get in trouble like my mom did. They have such strict rules for
me. I don't do drugs, drink, or smoke, and I do OK at school. How can I get them to
trust me?
– Mark*
When someone is incarcerated, it can be hard on everyone in the family. You and your grandparents probably have a lot of emotions and concerns about your mom's situation. Talking together about how you feel can help you get closer and understand each other better.
Maybe it's natural for your grandparents to worry a little more over you right now. Most likely, they are trying their best to care for you and keep you safe. Talk to them (respectfully, calmly, and with love) about how you feel.
Tell your grandparents you want their trust and that you plan to earn it. Let them know the ways you already try to stay safe and out of trouble. Remind them of what's going well for you. Remind them about what's good in your life, your accomplishments, and the dreams you have for your life.
Listen to what your grandparents have to say about family rules, curfews, and their expectations for you. Talk together about how you can earn their trust and make them proud.
Don't give in to negative expectations anyone may have of you because of your mother's situation. You are your own person. Set positive goals and standards for yourself. Surround yourself with people who are positive influences and who believe in you. Work hard to accomplish your goals and move toward your dreams.
As you build a great track record of taking good care of yourself and doing your best, hopefully your grandparents will be able to trust you more and more.
Sometimes difficult situations can help us learn good things. Try to learn positive lessons from your mom's experience and focus on living your very best life.
*Names have been changed to protect user privacy.